Trying to get her to encourage you to drink a lot of beer---or iced tea.

Early environmental laws often dealt with restricting where dyers and tanners could set up in towns due to bad smells and toxic discharges.

Not to get off topic but can I use a Slime (brand) tire inflator from my car as a bellows?Bellows? Or my air bed inflator?

Probably not. You want low pressure and (controllable) high volume; tire inflators typically give high pressure and low volume. They’re also noisy. 

What about the air bed inflator?

Air mattress inflators (both electric and manual) are a much better option.

I'll use that then until I get something better

Super efficient furnaces often have an "exhaust assist" blower on them.  It's not usually what goes wrong resulting in a furnace replacement.  Check your local HVAC place, tell them what you need it for and see if they have any on the bone pile you could use. (Usually 110 VAC here in the USA.)  If they want anything more than a couple of bucks for it; check somewhere else.  Free is common.

I'll check that out!

The advantage of a manual air mattress pump is threefold: it works even if the power goes out, it's a lot quieter, and you have total control over the airflow. Take a look at some of the pictures in this thread: 

 

On 12/7/2021 at 9:14 PM, Frosty said:

Our house is the same color

So is ours along with the storage shed. Can you tell we like light grey?

Went out and got this, now one question is this. Quench bucket, is regular tap water good or will I need to be making a Brine mixture?

The electric bed inflators are easy to quiet, place them in a wooden box with ventilation facing away from you

depends on what you are quenching. I use a cheep stock pot with a lid. This prevents accidental dropping of high carbon steels in said bucket. I also use a .50 cal ammo can full of vegetable oil for steels that do not like water. One needs brine when you are trying to squeeze a few more points of hardness out of medium carbon steels. 

The pump is a good one. I have one for inflatable stuff but bought it as double duty incase i want to use it for a forge blower. 

The quench bucket,.. plain water is fine for slack tub water to cool hot mild steel in cases. You would need to know what quenchant you would need for the metal you would be hardening. 

A water tub can tend to be called a quench tub or barrel etc.. but quenchant is used for hardening and what is used in it can vary. 

Plastic is generally not good for an actual quench tank. Metal would be preferred especially if your quench medium is oil. And you would want a lid to be able to smother any possible fires.

  If you are careful it can do for a slack water tub till you find something better. I do use a plastic bucket for water when I demo. (At least till i find something better.  Ive burned holes in or cracked plastic slack buckets before and prefer metal for those as well.

The bucket was cheap, I plan to eventually upgrade to a metal trashcan for a more permanent solution, but I misused the word quench, I was asking if I needed to put salt in water to cool metal, that was my mistake

No salt needed for a general cooling slack tub. Tap/ rain water is fine. 

Good to know, I'll worry about quenches for more advanced projects

Ditto on the metal bucket, even a metal trash can with silicone sealing any leaks. Much better than what will happen when (not if) hot steel meets plastic. 

I definetly plan to upgrade after the holidays. But I have a structural question, can I cut this into smaller strips and line the pot of my dirt box forge with it to make it more structurally sound and last longer?

17 hours ago, Charles R. Stevens said:

The electric bed inflators are easy to quiet, place them in a wooden box with ventilation facing away from you

I happened to have a little styrofoam cooler that some medication was shipped in that worked great for this. I might build a wooden frame around it or box it up to make it more durable. Surprisingly enough it's survived for at least two years intact without any protection. 

Pnut

I don't think lining your jabod pot with strips of plate metal will be helpful.  If you find the dirt crumbling a bit you can pack it down tighter or try something with more clay content that will pack tighter and hold shape a little better.

Have you fired it up yet? It might be fine as is. 

Plan to fire it for the first time tomorrow, it was going to be today but it's raining here

I use a mattress inflator, I've been picking them up at yard, garage, etc. sales for cheap for years, well I stopped a while back, I have lots. the 12v DC let you be mobile needing only a cigarette lighter in a vehicle but the 120v AC are nice for in and near the shop. I don't think of them as loud but my hearing is tuned to a propane forge so . . . 

Now you're REALLY overthinking things Fangs. The beauty of a JABOD is it's NOT permanent, when you're done for the day you can scoop or dump it back in the ditch or a couple buckets and be on your merry way. 

Reinforcing DIRT  is a definitive example of overthinking. 

Frosty The Lucky

Point taken

Besides, you could probably forge something nice from that. 

Cool, I'll find out tomorrow, going to try to make a set of Tongs, and I'm about to get a nice propane grill, I'm thinking of converting that I to a more permanent set up, but I'll keep my box together